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RELATING TO THE 

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL 
PARK, WASHINGTON 


COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE 

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 



WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

.1908 " 




LAWS AND REGULATIONS 


RELATING TO THE 

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL 
PARK, WASHINGTON 


COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE 

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 



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CONTENTS. 


Laws: Page. 

Act of March 2, 1899, reserving lands for park purposes, and provid¬ 
ing for control by Secretary of the Interior; regulations, railroad 
and tramway rights of way, leases, and use of revenues; relinquish¬ 
ment by Northern Pacific Railroad Company of certain lands in 
park and selection of others; lieu selections by holders of patented 

lands permitted; mineral-land laws extended to park_ 5 

Act of legislature of Washington ceding jurisdiction to the United 
States over lands in park, subject to acceptance by proper officer of 

the Government, approved March 16, 1901_ 7 

Sundry civil act of May 27, 190S, prohibiting location of mining 

claims, existing rights not to be affected_ 7 

Rules and regulations: 

General regulations for government of park, approved June 10, 1908- 8 

Regulations governing the impounding and disposition of loose live 

stock, approved June 10, 1908_ • 9 

Regulations governing the admission of automobiles, approved June 

10, 1908_ 10 

General legislation: 

Section 5391, Revised Statutes, providing for prosecutions under state 

laws where no federal laws are applicable_ 12 

Act of July 7, 1898, vesting jurisdiction for trial of offenses under the 

preceding section_ 12 

Act of March 3, 1875, providing penalties for cutting timber on re¬ 
served lands, destroying fences, driving live stock, etc- 12 

Act of June 3, 1S78, as amended by act of August 4, 1892, providing 
penalty for cutting timber on lands of United States in public- 

land States_ 13 

Act of June 10, 1896, providing penalty for changing or removing 

survey marks_ 14 

Act of February 6, 1905, providing for arrests by National Park and 

Forest employees for violations of laws and regulations-:_ 14 

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LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO MOUNT 
RAINIER NATIONAL PARR, WASHINGTON. 


LAWS. 


ACT OF MARCH 2, 1899 (30 STAT., 993). 

AN ACT To set aside a portion of certain lands in the State of Washington, 
now known as the “ Pacific Forest Reserve,” as a public park, to be known 
as the “ Mount Rainier National Park.” 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled , That all those cer¬ 
tain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being in the State of 
Washington, and within the boundaries particularly described as 
follows, to wit: Beginning at a point three miles east of the northeast 
corner of township numbered seventeen north, of range six east of the 
Willamette meridian; thence south through the central parts of town¬ 
ships numbered seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen north, of range seven 
east of the Willamette meridian, eighteen miles more or less, subject 
to the proper easterly or westerly offsets, to a point three miles east 
of the northeast corner of township numbered fourteen north, of 
range six east of the Willamette meridian; thence east on the town¬ 
ship line between townships numbered fourteen and fifteen north, 
eighteen miles more or less to a point three miles west of the northeast 
corner of township fourteen north, of range ten east of the Willa¬ 
mette meridian; thence northerly, subject to the proper easterly or 
westerly offsets, eighteen miles more or less, to a point three miles 
west of the northeast corner of township numbered seventeen north, 
of range ten east of the Willamette meridian (but in locating said 
easterly boundary, wherever the summit of the Cascade Mountains is 
sharply and well defined, the said line shall follow the said summit, 
where the said summit line bears west of the easterly line as herein 
determined) ; thence westerly along the township line between said 
townships numbered seventeen and eighteen to the place of beginning, 
the same being a portion of the lands which were reserved from entry 
or settlement and set aside as a public reservation by proclamation 
, of the President on the twentieth day of February, in the year of 
our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence 
of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth, are hereby 
dedicated and set apart as a public park, to be known and designated 
as the “ Mount Rainier National Park,” for the benefit and enjoyment 
of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or 

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occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereafter provided, 
shall be considered trespassers and be removed therefrom. 

Sec. 2. That said public park shall be under the exclusive control 
of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to make and 
publish, as soon as practicable, such rules and regulations as he may 
deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. 
Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury or 
spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or won¬ 
ders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition. 
The Secretary may, in his discretion, grant parcels of ground at such 
places in said park as shall require the erection of buildings for the 
accommodation of visitors; all of the proceeds of said leases, and all 
other revenues that may be derived from any source connected with 
said park, to be expended under his direction in the management of 
the same and the construction of roads and bridle paths therein. And 
through the lands of the Pacific Forest Reserve adjoining said park 
rights of way are hereby granted, under such restrictions and regula¬ 
tions as the Secretary of the Interior may establish, to any railway or 
tramway company or companies, through the lands of said Pacific 
Forest Reserve, and also into said park hereby created, for the pur¬ 
pose of building, constructing, and operating a railway, constructing 
and operating a railway or tramway line or lines, through said lands, 
also into said park. He shall provide against the wanton destruction 
of the fish and game found within said park, and against their cap¬ 
ture or destruction for the purposes of merchandise or profit. He shall 
also cause all persons trespassing upon the same after the passage of 
this act to be removed therefrom, and generally shall be authorized to 
take all such measures as shall be necessary to fully carry out the 
objects and purposes of this act. 

Sec. 3. That upon execution and filing with the Secretary of the 
Interior, by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, of proper deed 
releasing and conveying to the United States the lands in the reserva¬ 
tion hereby created, also the lands in the Pacific Forest Reserve which 
have been heretofore granted by the United States to said company, 
whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and which lie opposite said com¬ 
pany’s constructed road, said company is hereby authorized to select 
an equal quantity of nonmineral public lands, so classified as non¬ 
mineral at the time of actual government survey, which has been or 
shall be made, of the United States not reserved and to which no 
adverse right or claim shall have attached or have been initiated at 
the time of the making of such selection, lying within any State into 
or through which the railroad of said Northern Pacific Railroad Com¬ 
pany runs, to the extent of the lands so relinquished and released to 
the United States: Provided , That any settlers on lands in said na¬ 
tional park may relinquish their rights thereto and take other public 
lands in lieu thereof, to the same extent and under the same limita¬ 
tions and conditions as are provided by law for forest reserves and 
national parks. 

Sec. 4. That upon the filing by the said railroad company at the 
local land office of the land district in which any tract of land selected 
and the payment of the fees prescribed by law in analogous cases, 
and the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, he shall cause to 
be executed, in due form of law, and deliver to said company a patent 
of the United States conveying to it the lands so selected. In case 


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the tract so selected shall at the time of selection be unsurveyed, the 
list filed by the company at the local land office shall describe such 
tract in such manner as to designate the same with a reasonable 
degree of certainty; and within the period of three months after the 
lands including such tract shall have been surveyed and the plats 
thereof filed by said local land office, a new selection list shall be filed 
by said company, describing such tract according to such survey; 
and in case such tract, as originally selected and described in the list 
filed in the local land office, shall not precisely conform with the lines 
of the official survey, the said company shall be permitted to describe 
such tract anew, so as to secure such conformity. 

Sec- 5. That the mineral-land laws of the United States are hereby 
extended to the lands lying within the said reserve and said park. 


ACT OF LEGISLATURE OF STATE OF WASHINGTON, APPROVED 
MARCH 16, 1901. 0 

Exclusive jurisdiction shall be, and the same is hereby, ceded to 
the United States over and within all the territory which is now or 
may hereafter be included in that tract of land in the State of Wash¬ 
ington set aside for the purposes of a national park and known as 
“ Rainier National Park,” saving, however, to the said State the right 
to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid 
park in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, 
obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State, but outside 
of said park, and saving further to the said State the right to tax 
persons and corporations, their franchises and property, on the lands 
included in said park: Provided , however , That jurisdiction shall 
not vest until the United States, through the proper officer, notifies 
the governor of this State that they assume police or military juris¬ 
diction over said park. 


EXTRACT FROM SUNDRY CIVIL ACT OF MAY 27, 1908 (35 STAT., 

365)- 

Hereafter the location of mining claims under the mineral-land 
laws of the United States is prohibited within the area of the Mount 
Rainier National Park, in the State of Washington: Provided , how¬ 
ever , That this provision shall not affect existing rights heretofore 
acquired in good faith under the mineral-land laws of the United 
States to any mining location or locations in said Mount Rainier 
National Park. 

0 Congress has not as yet authorized the acceptance of this cession of juris¬ 
diction. 





RULES AND REGULATIONS. 


GENERAL REGULATIONS OF JUNE 10, 1908. 

Pursuant to the authority conferred by the acts of Congress ap¬ 
proved March 2,1899, and May 27,1908, the following rules and regu¬ 
lations for the government of the Mount Rainier National Park, in 
the State of Washington, are hereby established and made public: 

1. It is forbidden to injure or disturb in any manner any of the 
mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders on the government 
lands within the park. 

2. It is forbidden to cut or injure any timber growing on the park 
lands, or to deface or injure any government property. Camping 
parties will be allowed to use dead or fallen timber for fuel. 

3. Fires should be lighted only when necessary and completely ex¬ 
tinguished when not longer required. The utmost care must be exer¬ 
cised at all times to avoid setting fire to the timber and grass. 

4. Hunting or killing, wounding or capturing any bird or wild 
animal on the park lands, except dangerous animals when necessary 
to prevent them from destroying life or inflicting an injury, is pro¬ 
hibited. The outfits, including guns, traps, teams, horses, or means 
of transportation used by persons engaged in hunting, killing, trap¬ 
ping, ensnaring, or capturing such birds or wild animals, or in pos¬ 
session of game killed on the park lands under other circumstances 
than prescribed above, will be taken up by the superintendent and 
held subject to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, except in 
cases where it is shown by satisfactory evidence that the outfit is not 
the property of the person or persons violating this regulation and the 
actual owner thereof was not a party to such violation. Firearms 
will only be permitted in the park on written permission from the 
superintendent thereof. 

5. Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explo¬ 
sives, or in any other way than with hook and line, is prohibited. Fish¬ 
ing for purposes of merchandise or profit is forbidden. Fishing may 
be prohibited by order of the superintendent in any of the waters 
of the park, or limited therein to any specified season of the year, 
until otherwise ordered by the Secretary of the Interior. 

6. No person will be permitted to reside permanently, engage in 
any business, or erect buildings, etc., upon the government lands in 
the park, without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the 
Interior. The superintendent may grant authority to competent per¬ 
sons to act as guides and revoke the same in his discretion. No pack 
trains will be allowed in the park unless in charge of a duly registered 
guide. 

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7. Owners of patented lands within the park limits are entitled to 
the full use and enjoyment thereof; such lands, however, shall have 
the metes and bounds thereof so marked and defined that they may 
be readily distinguished from the park lands. Stock may be taken 
over the park lands to patented lands with the written permission and 
under the supervision of the superintendent. 

8. Hereafter the location of mining claims under the mineral-land 
laws of the United States is prohibited within the park. Persons 
who have heretofore acquired in good faith rights to any mining loca¬ 
tion or locations shall not be permitted to injure, destroy, or interfere 
with the retention in their natural condition of any timber, mineral 
deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park outside the 
boundaries of their respective mining claims duly located and held 
under the mineral-land laws. 

9. The herding or grazing of loose stock or cattle of any kind on 
the government lands in the park, as well as the driving of such 
stock or cattle over the same, is strictly forbidden, except in such 
cases where authority therefor is granted by the superintendent. 

10. No drinking saloon or barroom will be permitted upon govern¬ 
ment lands in the park. 

11. Private notices or advertisements shall not be posted or dis¬ 
played on the government lands within the reservation, except such 
as may be necessary for the convenience and guidance of the public. 

12. Persons who render themselves obnoxious by disorderly conduct 
or bad behavior, or who violate any of the foregoing rules, will be 
summarily removed from the park and will not be allowed to return 
without permission, in writing, from the Secretary of the Interior or 
the superintendent of the park. 

No'lessee or licensee shall retain in his employ any person whose 
presence in the park shall be deemed and declared by the superin¬ 
tendent to be subversive of the good order and management of the 
reservation. 

13. The superintendent designated by the Secretary is hereby 
authorized and directed to remove all trespassers from the govern¬ 
ment lands in the park and enforce these rules and regulations and all 
the provisions of the acts of Congress aforesaid. 

REGULATIONS OF JUNE 10, 1908, GOVERNING THE IMPOUNDING AND DIS¬ 
POSITION OF LOOSE LIVE STOCK. 

Horses, cattle, or other domestic live stock running at large or being 
herded or grazed in the Mount Rainier National Park without au¬ 
thority from the Secretary of the Interior, will be taken up and im¬ 
pounded by the superintendent, who will at once give notice thereof 
to the owner, if known. If the owner is not known, notice of such 
impounding, giving a description of the animal or animals, with the 
jarands thereon, will be posted in six public places inside the park and 
in two public places outside the park. Any owner of an animal thus 
impounded may, at any time before the sale thereof, reclaim the same 
upon proving ownership and paying the cost of notice and all expenses 
incident to the taking up and detention of such animal, including 
the cost of feeding and caring for the same. If any animal thus 
impounded shall not be reclaimed within thirty days from notice 
to the owner or from the date of posting notices, it shall be sold at 


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public auction at such time and place as may be fixed by the superin¬ 
tendent after ten days’ notice, to be given by posting notices in six 
public places in the park and two public places outside the park, 
and by mailing to the owner, if known, a copy thereof. 

All money received from the sale of such animals and remaining 
after the payment of all expenses incident to the taking up, impound¬ 
ing, and selling thereof, shall be carefully retained by the superin¬ 
tendent in a separate fund for a period or six months, during which 
time the net proceeds from the sale of any animal may be claimed by 
and paid to the owner upon the presentation of satisfactory proof 
of ownership, and if not so claimed within six months from the date 
of sale such proceeds shall be turned into the Mount Rainier National 
Park fund. 

The superintendent shall keep a record in which shall be set down 
a description of all animals impounded, giving the brands found on 
them, the date and locality of the taking up, the date of all notices 
and manner in -which they were given, the date of sale, the name and 
address of the purchaser, the amount for which each animal was sold 
and the cost incurred in connection therewith, and the disposition of 
the proceeds. 

The superintendent will, in each instance, make every reasonable 
effort to ascertain the owner of animals impounded and to give actual 
notice thereof to such owner. 

REGULATIONS OF JUNE 10, 1908, GOVERNING THE ADMISSION OF AUTO¬ 
MOBILES. 

Pursuant to authority conferred by the act of March 2, 1899 (30 
Stat., 993), setting aside certain lands in the State of Washington as 
a public park, the following regulations governing the admission of 
automobiles into the Mount Rainier National Park, during the season 
of 1908, are hereby established and made public: 

1. No automobile will be permitted within the metes and bounds of 
the Mount Rainier National Park unless the owner thereof has first 
secured a written permit from the acting superintendent, G. F. Allen, 
Orting, Wash. 

2. Applications for permits must show: (a) Name of owner, (5) 
number of machine, (c) name of driver, and ( d) inclusive dates for 
which permit is desired, not exceeding one year, and be accompanied 
by a fee of $5 for each machine. 

Permits must be presented to the acting superintendent or his au¬ 
thorized representative at the park entrance on the government road. 
The permittee will not be allowed to do a transportation business in 
the park without license therefor from the Secretary of the Interior. 

3. The use of automobiles will be permitted on the government road 
as far as completed from the western boundary of Mount Rainier Na¬ 
tional Park to beyond Longmire Springs, between the hours of 9 a. m. 
and 11 a. m., and between the hours of 3.30 p. m. and 5.30 p m., but 
such machines must be kept in advance of the stages. 

During these hours teams may meet automobiles. At all other times 
automobiles are excluded from the use of roads within the park. 

4. When teams approach, automobiles will take position on the 
outer edge of the roadway, regardless of the direction in which they 


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are going, taking care that sufficient room is left on the inside for 
passage of team. 

5. Automobiles will stop when teams approach and remain at rest 
until teams have passed or until teamsters are satisfied regarding the 
saftey of their teams. 

6. Speed will be limited to 6 miles per hour, except on straight 
stretches where approaching teams will be visible, when, if no teams 
are in sight, this speed may be increased. 

7. Signal with horn will be given at or near every bend to announce 
to approaching teams the proximity of an automobile. 

8. Teams have the right of way, and automobiles will be backed, 
or otherwise handled, as necessary, so as to enable teams to pass with 
safety. 

9. Violation of any of the foregoing rules will cause the revocation 
of permit; will subject the owner of the automobile to any damages 
occasioned thereby, and to ejectment from the reservation; and be 
cause for refusal to issue a new permit to the owner of the machine 
without prior sanction in writing from the Secretary of the Interior. 


GENERAL LEGISLATION. 


SECTION 5391, REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Prosecutions under State Laws where no Federal Laws Are Applicable. 

If any offense be committed in any place which has been or may 
hereafter be, ceded to and under the jurisdiction of the United States, 
which offense is not prohibited, or the punishment thereof is not 
specially provided for, by any law of the United States, such offense 
shall be liable to, and receive, the same punishment as the laws of the 
State in which such place is situated, now in force, provide for the 
like offense when committed within the jurisdiction of such State; 
and no subsequent repeal of any such State law shall affect any prose¬ 
cution for such offense in any court of the United States. 


ACT OF JULY 7, 1898 (30 STAT., 717). 

AN ACT To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used 
by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes. 

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Sec. 2. That when any offense is committed in any place, jurisdic¬ 
tion over which has been retained by the United States or ceded to it 
by a State, or which has been purchased with the consent of a State 
for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other need¬ 
ful building or structure, the punishment for which offense is not pro¬ 
vided for by any law of the United States, the person committing 
such offense shall, upon conviction in a circuit or district court of the 
United States for the district in which the offense was committed, be 
liable to and receive the same punishment as the laws of the State in 
which such place is situated now provide for the like offense when 
committed within the jurisdiction of such State, and the said courts 
are hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose; and no subse¬ 
quent repeal of any such State law shall affect any such prosecution. 


ACT OF MARCH 3, 1875 (18 STAT., 481). 

Cutting Timber on Reserved Lands, Destroying Fences, etc. 

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Be it enacted by the Senate and Honse of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled , That if any person 
or persons shall knowingly and unlawfully cut, or shall knowingly 
aid, assist, or be employed in unlawfully cutting, or shall wantonly 
destroy or injure, or procure to be wantonly destroyed or injured, any 
timber-tree or any shade or ornamental tree, or any other kind of 
tree, standing, growing, or being upon any lands of the United States, 
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which, in pursuance of law, have been reserved, or which have been 
purchased by the United States for any public use, every such person 
or persons so offending, on conviction thereof before any circuit or 
district court of the United States, shall, for every such offense, pay 
a fine not exceeding $500, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding twelve 
months. 

Sec. 2. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlaw¬ 
fully break or destroy any fence, wall, hedge, or gate inclosing any 
lands of the United States, which have, in pursuance of any law, been 
reserved or purchased by the United States for any public use, every 
such person so offending, on conviction, shall, for every such offense, 
pay a fine not exceeding $200, or be imprisoned not exceeding six 
months. 

Sec. 3. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlaw¬ 
fully break, open, or destroy any gate, fence, hedge, or wall inclosing 
any lands of the United States, reserved or purchased as aforesaid, 
and shall drive any cattle, horses, or hogs upon the lands aforesaid, 
for the purpose of destroying the grass or trees on the said grounds, 
or where they may destroy the said grass or trees, or if any such per¬ 
son or persons shall knowingly permit his or their cattle, horses, or 
hogs to enter through any of said inclosures upon the lands of the 
United States aforesaid, where the said cattle, horses, or hogs may or 
can destroy the grass or trees or other property of the United States 
on the said land, every such person or persons so offending, on con¬ 
viction, shall pay a fine not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned not 
exceeding twelve months. 

Provided , That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to 
unsurveyed public lands and to public lands subject to preemption 
and homestead laws, or to public lands subject to an act to promote 
the development of the mining resources of the United States, 
approved May 10,1872. 


ACT OF JUNE 3, 1878 (20 STAT., 89), AS AMENDED BY SEC. 2, OF 
THE ACT OF AUGUST 4, 1892 (27 STAT., 348). 

Cutting Timber on Lands of the United States. 

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Sec. 4. After the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to cut, or 
cause or procure to be cut, or wantonly destroy, any timber growing 
on any lands of the United States in public-land States, or remove, 
or cause to be removed, any timber from said public lands with in¬ 
tent to export or dispose of the same; and no owner, master, or con¬ 
signee of any vessel, or owner, director, or agent of any railroad, shall 
knowingly transport the same, or any lumber manufactured there¬ 
from; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined for 
every such offense a sum not less than one hundred nor more than 
one thousand dollars. 



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ACT OF JUNE io, 1896 (29 STAT., 343). 

Changing or Removing Survey Marks. 

AN ACT Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the 
Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and for other purposes. 

Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, deface, 
change, or remove to another place any section corner, quarter-sec¬ 
tion corner, or meander post on any Government line of survey, or 
to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a 
Government survey, or to deface, change, or remove any monument 
or bench mark of any Government survey. That any person who 
shall offend against any of the provisions of this paragraph shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any 
court shall be fined not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or be 
imprisoned not more than one hundred days. All the fines accruing 
under this paragraph shall be paid into the Treasury, and the in¬ 
former, in each case of conviction, shall be paid the sum of twenty- 
five dollars. 


ACT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1905 (33 STAT., 700). 

Arrests by National Park and Forest Employees. 

AN ACT For the protection of the public forest reserves and national parks of 
the United States. 

All persons employed in the forest-reserve and national-park service 
of the United States shall have authority to make arrests for the 
violation of the laws and regulations relating to the forest reserves 
and national parks, and any person so arrested shall be taken before 
the nearest United States commissioner, within whose jurisdiction 
the reservation or national park is located, for trial; and upon sworn 
information by any competent person any United States commissioner 
in the proper jurisdiction shall issue process for the arrest of any 
person charged with the violation of said laws and regulations; but 
nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the arrest 
by any officer of the United States, without process, of any person 
taken in the act of violating said laws and regulations. 


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